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well hello my friend so I imagine you're here on some level because you feel ready to connect more deeply to all aspects of who you are the parts that you truly love that excite you that you're proud of as well as the parts that you may consciously or unconsciously be repressing at this time in today's video we are stepping into a conversation with the Shadow Self now the Shadow Self may sound spooky and mysterious but from my perspective our shadow is simply the aspect of our s or aspects of our s that we have chosen

to conceal that we are not aware of that we may or may not feel shame or repression about a journey into conversing with our shadow may actually reveal gifts empowerment areas within ourselves where wounding may be present and so if you feel inspired to move through today's conversation I invite you to approach with a deep sense of compassion for all parts of yourself with a spirit of curiosity and ultimately with a choice to simply be clear with yourself without the requirement of having shame blame or guilt at any part of this journey because after all

from my perspective you are an experimenter in the experience of life now I'm Danielle Lynn a pattern shifter someone who has conversations with intentional creators such as yourself who are choosing to remember how to be unified within themselves so that you can experience more of what you truly enjoy in the world around you we have the ability to place our focus in our our attention in many directions in our lives and from my experience what we consistently place our inner attention on is what we often experience Amplified and reflected around us so when I'm speaking

with rad people such as yourself and we're discussing the nature nature and the possibilities of your life the stories and the experiences that are going on what I have found is the challenges and the joys of your life are providing you with hints about the inner tapestry that is currently being held active within your inner world and for myself and those who have chosen to work with with me we have found it to be very efficient and effective to be observant and alert with the workings of our inner World which in turn assist us in

informing what might be consistently showing up in our outer world it is said that what we resist within ourselves will show up in one way or another in our lives when we block when we suppress any aspect of ourselves on some level we are blocking and suppressing the totality of who we are because from my perspective who we are contains within it all the light the dark the perceived good the perceived bad every element within you has a space at the table and it is only when we push away who we truly are that we

often find ourselves in Conflict within that can show up as conflict around us ourselves because you see in my own life I have found whatever challenge I am facing allows me an opportunity to see just how attached I am to a perceived story of what is or if I'm simply meeting the moment with a certain sense of curiosity a certain sense of lightness a certain sense of discovery of seeing more of what is possible rather than attempting to insist what I think should be and I have found in my own life moving in this way

allows me to not only have a more satisfying experience of life but it allows me to more clearly see what is and make choices that are energy effective for me and those around me because it is my perspective that we are all naturally built in a way that allows us to thrive in our own unique ways should we choose to listen be aware of and make choices that are in honor of who we truly are and one of the places we often find ourselves in dishonor is with the aspects of ourselves that I will refer

to as the Shadow the shadow is anything that we internally or maybe even physically viscerally turn our attention away from perhaps we have a sense of Shame blame guilt maybe there's a part of ourselves that rejects it that calls it bad not good we want to change it what I have found in my own life is that the shadow itself is nothing more than the aspects within that are being unloved when we approach our shadow from a place of curiosity a place of negotiation a place of communication these aspects of ourselves and we start to

realize that we are simply when we are pushing away our shadows on some level perpetuating rejection within ourselves the path of exploring one's Shadow can be very intense because sometimes it brings us face to face with things that we've looked away from for years but in my own life I have found it to be a deeply rewarding Journey that not only has allowed me more peace and a sense of unity within myself but has connected me to a deeper sense of playfulness and empowerment in the world because I have found when you choose to bring

awareness to the places within yourself that you feel the deepest fear you discover often times that that fear through your awareness naturally is transmuted and much like washing the dirt off a gem reveals a crystalline treasure within I am inviting us to explore aspects of self and perspectives that I imagine will help you more deeply connect connect to some perceived Shadows or perceived repressive parts of yourself as we continue to connect to who we truly are when we focus on the challenge or on a perceived problem from the place of wanting to fix it or

thinking if I fix the challenge or problem it will resolve my inner state then what we are doing is we are placing our energy outside of ourselves we are saying something outside of me has the power to tilt me it has the power to determine whether I am having a good day or bad day whether my life is going in the direction I want or not this may seem like a commonplace occurrence after all you might look around and Witness there are many people in life choosing to respond in this way consciously or unconsciously the

perspective that I will offer you is that challenges are only as big of a deal as we make them if one was to look at the field of Life as a giant theater of improvisation I'm going to say that a different way if one if someone was to look at life as a big theater of improvisation one might discover that you can approach life with a same yes and spirit what I'm referring to is an improv theater you have a collection of people on a stage and they are given a scenario and one person might

start and another person responds but the general rule is simply yes and no one resists the scenario being set up however as an improviser you have the ability to meet the moment with a yes say and and then from there guide the momentum of the set in a similar way in life we are in essence improvisers who are able to go yes and to any quality of life that is presenting itself to us whether it's the darkest most painful experience you could imagine or something very light-hearted and silly every single experience in your life has

the opportunity to be yes and did where it can appear that you do not have power or Choice often comes from having an invested momentum into an idea or a belief structure that has been perceived to have been experienced for a long period of time and therefore on some level we have convinced ourselves that we do not have power to make a new Choice it's very much like the stories of baby elephants when they had been uh captured and they would be chained up by the leg and they would pull and Pull and Pull and

see they couldn't remove the chain so they gave up and when they were adults they didn't attempt to pull the chain because they had retained the memory that they were unable to move the chain and yet as an adult elephant they would easily be able to move their leg and pull out the chain but they were continuing to process their current situation from the memory of a past pattern without exper experimenting on the current possibilities available to them in a similar way many of us have had these experiences from childhood where we had others act

upon our personal power telling us yes or no for a stretch of time and once we had exited childhood some of us continued to perpetuate those patterns because that is what was known and there's a certain amount of self-love that goes into perpetuating patterns this is one reason why there's never any need to feel shame blame or guilt about these things from my perspective because we are always operating from the most resonant pathway that we know in every given moment when we are approaching something new we are actually entering the field of the unknown because

you see one of the reasons the the mind can feel very challenged by change is because the mind from my experience en does not have as much of a say when you are entering the threshold of the unknown because the mind operates from what is known and from my experience it is your heart center that actually navigates you through the depths of the unknown if you're ever curious whether you're being Guided by the mind or the heart the Mind attempts to convince the Mind needs reasons the mind has lists the mind convinces the heart acts

the heart knows the heart feels peace and grounding the heart simply is it doesn't require a series of explanations in order to move but I'll add additionally that from my experience the heart isn't something that's excited or big or oh I'm making a leap from the heart from my experience the answers that come from the heart are actually very peaceful they're actually very grounded and so if you're experiencing a a certain sense of overzealous excitement or nervousness it may be an invitation to sit with that a little further to allow those feelings to feel to

feel to feel until you get to the gooey Center of what the actual answer is beyond the excitement beyond the known beyond the unknown there simply is the answer and in my experience we always have access to the answer it may simply be our experiences of conditioning or uncondition that tell us it's not safe to look at the answer because especially if we have a certain fear of the unknown and this can come in the form of what will happen to my house what will happen to my job what will happen to my family what

will happen to my life what will people think what will what will happen this is the part of self that wants control so when some people think about manifesting they think in terms of right I'll manifest so much money so I can keep things this way so it'll turn out the way I think it needs to and what these conversations represent is something I find quite different than that because in my own life this is not an attempt to control or power my way through life I don't find that particularly efficient in my own life

and I really enjoy having a nice pleasant journey for me and for some that I have connected with the experience that is available comes from a deep understanding that at any given moment no matter how dire your situation is there is always a step you can take in the present moment you may not be having an experience that you prefer overall and that's all right this may be built up of momentum that was perpetuated until this moment and that's all right sometimes I say to people when they ask why would I have made this choice

or why would I be here it can be beneficial to consider at what level did you make that choice it may not have been at the level of the ego self or the human self but it may have been at the level of a more expanded self or a subconscious self that you made this choice and so when we we talk about connecting with the perceived Shadow parts of Self in a sense we're bringing everybody's conversation to the table many times when I speak to people who have they they call it subconscious self- sabotage happens

because there is an aspect of yourself there's an aspect of yourself that requires voice advocacy breath a seat at the table of your life so to speak and it can sometimes be suppressed for a period of time you can sometimes hold your breath for a period of time eventually the breath comes through eventually the energy is released it's sort of like pulling back a rubber band some call this excess potential attempting to create your way out of connecting with your shadows or your unseen parts of self simply create more momentum that will be shifted once

it's time it's sort of like hiding something under a rug then placing placing something on that rug and placing something else on that rug but then eventually when the rug comes off so will everything else that was set on top of it and so it can be a lot more loving to oneself to Simply connect with the present moment to be aware and say what within me would like to be seen or heard many times I have found the thing things that we fear the most inside of ourselves are often the portals through which we

authentically connect with ourselves and with others I have found that what we often fear in others or the world around us carries within it a thread or a hint of where you may not be meeting yourself inside I have found however that when you are clear within yourself when you commune with the inner parts of yourself when you are willing to have a discussion with the terrifying dark Beast Within you start to realize that this once shadowy scary figure was in essence simply the parts of yourself that were not given love they were parts of

yourself that were told that they are unacceptable that they are no good that they need to change they need to go away they need to stop whether it was through family experiences Society whether it was something internalized maybe something you simply believed or read I see this when I observe others attack others whether it's through words or whether it's through actual acts of attack on some level it is an external acting out of the war within because those who have a deep sense of Love within themselves naturally do not find any requirement to perpetuate or

act onto another outside of themselves when we address our own inner areas of being unloved it allows us portals of compassion not only within but a deeper understanding of others around which may Inspire us to make choices that that are more likely to result in deep integration of ourselves but also the world around us if you like here is one moment where you can connect with that part of yourself within en so if you like go ahead and take a breath in and a breath out now if you like you can put your hand on

your chest and on your gut breath in and out and on this next breath in you have an opportunity to Simply say inside out I am here if I have ignored you consciously or unconsciously I am truly sorry but in all the ways that are authentic to me I am choosing now to be curious I may not fully understand you just yet enen but I am curious and I am more interested in choosing a path together that is going to be mutually respectful and harmonious then I am interested in fighting or pushing away any longer

I may not know what I don't know but I am curious enough to explore Enlighten then go ahead and take a breath in and then just allow the breath to roll out you might notice there's certain parts of yourself you might feel in your body certain parts relax just a little bit ease your shoulders back this represents a beginning of a conversation should you choose to have it an opportunity for you to continue to connect with then using journals sitting meditating with yourself you might simply speak out loud for me it was very much like

forging a friendship but perhaps with someone that I had animosity with at some point but now I'm coming to a new understanding with enlightened at the time of making this video we would be shortly here releasing in the at the time of making this video one of my own trainings on internal family systems A variation of it will be coming out currently in the self- Alchemy lab otherwise you can check the description for where you can sign up or register for that training and experience this is one of my own practices on how you can

deepen this conversation within yourself in a way that facilitates genuine self- Unity towards your own empowerment towards a deeper sense of inner groundedness and as one of the foundational keys I find for reality creation so please feel invited to check the description link for that and in all cases it's been such a delight to talk today if this video has been of assistance please consider like sharing sh ing subscribing and in the comments I would love to hear how your experience of this was and perhaps what questions you have to go even deeper and in

all cases I look forward to our next conversation